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Steam Deck OLED 512GB: Now $789 USD; CAD 1,129; EUR 779; GBP 649; AUD 1,199; PLN 3,279

Steam Deck OLED 1TB: Now $949 USD; CAD 1,349; EUR 919; GBP 779; AUD 1,429; PLN 3,879

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[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 3 points 5 hours ago

The conversation so far has been (paraphrasing) ...

  1. Lemmchen: "Wow steam machines are gonna be expensive", on a thread specifically about a massive price hike on Steam Decks (due to memory pricing)
  2. You: "Well maybe not, machines won't have OLED screens, battery, and optional controller"
  3. Femtek: "yeah but those things aren't why steam Decks are having this huge price hike. They are going up because of memory" memory is a shared component between Decks and machines.
  4. You: "yes, those things will impact the price, but these other things that the machine won't have will also impact the price."
  5. Femtek: "not by the same amount"
  6. You: "I wasn't arguing that"

What point were you trying to make if not that having no screen/optional controller would offset the increased memory prices?